Blanche Slate: Nuit Blanche Live

For the duration of Nuit Blanche, Torontoist hosted Blanche Slate, a concurrent projection onto the south-facing wall of the Art Gallery of Ontario and a liveblog updated right here, below. For the whole entire night, we continually threw Nuit Blanche updates—photos and text, from both our contributors and our readers—to the wall, and into this article.
You can find our updates below, in ascending order:

“Fire and Sausage: Small Mercies is warming up in the Green P parking lot in Liberty Village. As part of Tom Dean’s ‘social sculpture’ Chef Jamie Kennedy himself is on site overseeing dozens of slightly wet George Brown students as they prepare molten hot chocolate in thick, iron cauldrons and whittle down sticks that will skewer sausages handmade by the man himself.”FROM: AYNGELINA BROGAN (PHOTOS) & KAORI FURUE (TEXT)
LOCATION: ZONE C
TIME: 6:45 P.M. (ADDED AT 07:13 P.M.)

“Royal Conservatory of Music lit up with neon shades of pastel purple, pink, and green. Live instrumental performance evoking horror-movie eeriness in the best possible way.”FROM: HAMUTAL DOTAN
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 8:30 P.M. (ADDED AT 08:33 P.M.)

“Zone A Warning! Roving band of men in white outfits and red hats, wielding rags, and dancing. They have bells on their feet, and are aggressively enthusiastic. Not sure why.”FROM: HAMUTAL DOTAN
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 9:05 P.M. (ADDED AT 09:05 P.M.)

“There are about 400 people in line to see the Jeffrey Farmer piece inside the church next to the eaton centre. According to a woman in line the wait is about 45 mins.”FROM: BRENDA PETROFF
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 11:09 P.M. (ADDED AT 11:13 P.M.)

“Each time the suspended word changes at Nathan Phillips Square, the entire crowd reads the new word out loud in unison! Everybody’s eyes are glowing and it seems like some kind of cult.”FROM: BRENDA PETROFF
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 11:24 P.M. (ADDED AT 11:35 P.M.)

“The crowds are starting to make people antsy. Various people: ‘there’s too many people out this year. It was much better last year.’ ‘this is nightmare.’ ‘This needs to be better planned.’ ‘fucking lines everywhere.””FROM: STEPHEN MICHALOWICZ
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:00 A.M. (ADDED AT 12:01 A.M.)

“An amateur artist’s infra-LED sketch of a puppy dog is being projected on one side of the Ted Rogers School of Management. Passersby are confusing it for a snowman.”FROM: ALEX NINO GHECIU
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:03 A.M. (ADDED AT 12:07 A.M.)

“BICITYCLE is an unexpected wonder. Looking at first like a disappointing smattering of assembled junk, the moment random spectators mount the bicycles and start dragging around their payloads, enjoyment is irresistible. A desk with a lamp, a kiddie-pool filled with wildflowers, and an overbearing umbrella tree all chase after the riders.”FROM: MICHAEL CHRISMAN (PHOTO) & AMANDA HAPPE (TEXT)
LOCATION: ZONE C
(ADDED AT 12:14 A.M.)

“We are covered in glitter at College and Spadina. We don’t know where it came from. Thanks, artists.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER AND NICOLE VILLENEUVE
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:20 A.M. (ADDED AT 12:22 A.M.)

“There are a bunch of people in ghost costumes singing about dead slang. But they look more like KKK members in a weird chant. This was not a well thought-out exhibit.”FROM: STEPHEN MICHALOWICZ
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:10 A.M. (ADDED AT 12:23 A.M.)

“A street performer at Bay and Albert streets has just got out some chainsaws and gasoline. This is going to be awesome.”FROM: STEPHEN MICHALOWICZ
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:12 A.M. (ADDED AT 12:37 A.M.)

“We’re Canadian … we like a good apology, but The Apology Project is a bit much. It’s thoroughly embarrassing, in fact. Who knew that a crowd of anonymous paper-bags telling you how sorry they are could make you want to run and hide, or preferably, cease to exist all-together.”FROM: AMANDA HAPPE
LOCATION: ZONE C
(ADDED AT 12:42 A.M.)

“Over five hours in and the bride is still bouncing ten feet in the air.”FROM: KAORI FURUE
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 1:00 A.M. (ADDED AT 1:02 A.M.)

“Weird to see a library full of line dancers. But then I did just get a Goth makeover and a coffee snowcone from a Ferris wheel.”FROM: JOHNNIE WALKER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12:08 A.M. (ADDED AT 1:09 A.M.)

“inSANITY, the installation at CAMH is truly amazing. There are six figurative sculptures, each representing a former patient of the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, each portraying an incredibly moving story through sculpture, video and sound. One mannequin is modeled after a patient who was incarcerated for 58 years, a time during which he even constructed a functioning aircraft!”FROM: BRENDA PETROFF
LOCATION: ZONE C
TIME: 1:44 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:01 A.M.)

“The crowds are starting to thin out and the real weirdos are coming out to play. I just passed two girls with mustaches, a bunny riding a bike and a line of grown men clutching a rope like kindergartners afraid to be separated from the class. ”FROM: BRENDA PETROFF
LOCATION: ZONE C
TIME: 2:05 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:07 A.M.)

Overheard, someone on their cell phone after sprint-streaking through the water at Nathan Phillips square: “I just did coke inside the mall, where are you?”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 2:17 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:19 A.M.)

“Manifesto’s closing party on 52 McCaul not officially part of proceedings, but some of the best art around tonight. Three floors of hip hop-inspired art plus some serious turntable action.”FROM: NICK KOZAK (PHOTOS) & HAMUTAL DOTAN (TEXT)
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 12 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:31 A.M.)

“TTC drivers are being really lenient about fares tonight. Many people report being able to ride for free.”FROM: STEPHEN MICHALOWICZ
LOCATION: ZONE B
TIME: 2:19 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:45 A.M.)

“Just saw a couple drunkenly fall down the stairs near the AGO together and a server remark, ‘it’s all downhill from here’ without batting an eyelash.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 1:24 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:48 A.M.)

“It’s impossible not to empathize with the artist, still toiling at the centre of his crumpling, semi-assembled dome of pylons. You know how that feels; when the deadline is past, your efforts are public, and your sanity lies in renegotiating your definition of success. Let’s just call Rescue Bubble a kinetic performance piece that tugs on the heart strings.”FROM: MICHAEL CHRISMAN (PHOTOS) & AMANDA HAPPE (TEXT)
LOCATION: ZONE C
TIME: 9:30 P.M. (ADDED AT 2:50 A.M.)

“Walking with Dave Clarke of ‘Hey Dave’ fame during his break. His voice is hoarse and his hand is beginning to hurt from pleasing the masses.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 2:54 A.M. (ADDED AT 2:56 A.M.)

“The artist behind the vodka pool seems amused by the kids interacting with the exhibit by skipping coins through it. Guy is going to have tens of dollars at the end of the night.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE B
TIME: 3:32 A.M. (ADDED AT 3:41 A.M.)

“Hoping for a raise from Torontoist so I can drop three hundo $$ to get in on Monopoly with Real Money. Our money is currently on Che Kothari from Manifesto who just collected on Park Place. Overheard: ‘that’ll be $1100.’ Ouch.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE B
TIME: 3:53 A.M. (ADDED AT 3:54 A.M.)

“The only decipherable things seen ‘painted’ on the wall of the Pwn the Wall Graffiti Lab in the past minute: an anarchy sign and the word ‘boner.’ Righteous.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 4:20 A.M. (ADDED AT 4:35 A.M.)

“Something tells us that ‘exhibit 322,’ a cardboard sign duct taped to a fuse box near the AGO, is not a for reals exhibit. It really moved us though.”FROM: ASHLEY CARTER
LOCATION: ZONE A
TIME: 5:24 A.M. (ADDED AT 5:27 A.M.)

And that’s all for the nuit, folks. Thanks for reading, and thanks to everyone. Good night, good night, good night.FROM: ANDREW LOUIS (PHOTO)
LOCATION: TORONTOIST’S PROJECTION (AT THE LEFT THERE) ON THE WALL OF THE AGO